Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others. Back in 2009, residents were scandalized when employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip were accused of exhuming old graves in order to resell the burial plots, unceremoniously dumping older remains in another area on the grounds.... [6163 chars]
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